More than a century ago, a group of researchers came across a set of red markings in Bacon Hole, a cave in South Wales. They postulated that the markings were cave art, but others scholars disagreed.

A fragmentary hand stencil on Indonesia’s Muna Island has a minimum age of 67,800 years, the oldest reported minimum for cave ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Neanderthals may have left engravings on the walls of a French cave 57,000 years ago. The markings are ...

The oldest known cave art in the world dates back tens of thousands of years, sharing a glimpse of a prehistoric world as our ancestors saw it. Cave paintings can tell us a lot about the people who ...

Caves are natural shelters. Throughout our history, humans have made extensive use of them as spaces to create art, inter the dead and butcher animals for food and clothing. In this countdown, Live ...

A painting made inside a cave in Mexico, which houses art made centuries ago, has been carved from the wall by looters with an electric saw, archaeologists said. The cave, known as La Cueva Pinta, is ...

Archaeologists have found the largest grouping of cave art drawings made by Native Americans prior to the arrival of Spanish explorers. Scientists took thousands of high-tech photos to scan the ...

Vandals broke in to Koonalda Cave in South Australia and wrote a prank message over 30,000 year old art Photo by the Mirning cultural group In Southern Australia, vandals have broken into Koonalda ...

Jean-Claude explains bear markings to PhD student Trine Friesleben. (photo by and courtey Kristina Jørkov Thomsen) Homo sapiens have long looked down on Neanderthals as the less sophisticated side of ...

New details of our past are coming to light, hiding in the nooks and crannies of the world, as we refine our techniques to go looking for them. Most lauded is the reconstruction of the evolution of ...